GAO-19-249: Published: Mar 14, 2019. Publicly Released: Mar 15, 2019.

Federal ethics programs seek to safeguard the integrity of governmental decision-making. That includes oversight of political appointees serving in the executive branch. We reviewed information available on executive branch political appointees and examined 3 agencies' ethics programs. We found There is no single source of publicly available, comprehensive, and timely data on appointees 2 of th...